9 posts tagged “vox”

Show us your favorite photo of yourself.

My new hairdo!!!

Ahhhh... hmmm, I'm not photogenic... AT ALL. So I have to pay for people to doll me up and provide professional lighting and equipment and take pics of me to look half decent in a photo.

Here's a group of such pics taken waaaay back in 1996. The one pictured here is a more current favorite photo.

Update: I guess the Facebook album is only accessible to FB members.... so I created a Twango channel as well. Hmm, I guess I could have uploaded them to Vox? Or Flickr? Ahhh so many choices...

This is a test with the Vox app. Not the online share function in gallery.

Update: it works! Whatleydude can you see this? (It also worked from my E62 a while back.)

I always thought that Vox can only be used with certain Nseries devices. Thanks to OSDE.INFO, I found that there's actually an app you can download for any S60 3rd edition devices (rather than the config file you download to get the Vox settings in the Nseries Gallery app). I use my E62 as my main phone so it's great to be able to post to Vox from it in addition to my N95. Not to mention the qwerty keyboard makes it easier to compose an entry!

Profilactic

Lol, every time I type that word I giggle.

Anyone Profilacticing yet? Yeah, they are barely 1.0, but pretty nifty already. And they support every site, web 2.0 or otherwise!

Here's my mashup page and also my mashup rss (you've subscribed to this, right??)

They're working really hard to improve things too and very open to suggestions and feedback. I've helped them fix a bug. Well, ok, they fixed it, but I reported it and suggested the possible solution. I guess it helped because the turnaround time was one hour. Wow, if we could fix bugs so quickly at work...

But the main reason I'm writing this is... I need some friends! When I go to my friends page, I see, Boo you have no friends.... they try to console me by saying "We like you, anyway." although behind my back they tell everyone else "That is just plain sad." Grrr....

Well, I know I have all you wonderful friends here at Vox, I want ya'll to list/aggregate all your sites too so I can stalk you at those sites as well ;) j/k. I just think it's a fun and useful tool, and if you decide the same, don't forget to add me as a friend!

Not sure if this is a widely known (javascript?) feature, but I thought it's pretty cool.

Sometimes when you reply to a comment or message, you might want to quote it. There's no obvious way to do it, but all you have to do is highlight the text (so you can select the whole message or just part of it).

Voxreply1

And then when you hit "reply", the selected text will be quoted in the reply entry field.

Voxreply2

Hmm, just realized the subject of the post can be quite suggestive. But I'm sure my readers don't have as notty a mind as I do ;)

I've only recently Linked In. As someone who's usually an early adopter of web technology (on the Internet for 13 years, been online shopping and banking for almost as long, heard about and used Amazon and Ebay way before everyone else - if only I had the smarts to buy their stocks then!), I've been consistently late in using these so called "social networking" services.

Not that I haven't been following the trends. I heard about Friendster when it first started, but didn't sign on until last year. I still don't have a MySpace account. But maybe I'm too old for that. Plus I'm really not that social a person... I tend to lurk rather than contribute. Although Vox is doing a great job in bringing me out of my shell a bit...

(A good site that keeps abreast of social networking news is Mashable. There's also a List of social networking websites on Wikipedia though it's far from complete.)

Why do people join so many social networks? I can't speak for others, but for me it's mainly about connecting with people that I share something with. Friendster helped me reconnect with many friends from way-back-when... LinkedIn will (hopefully) build up my professional network... and I joined WAYN in hopes of finding people with as much wanderlust as I do -- unfortunately there were more with just plain lust.

I've been eyeing Wikitravel for quite a while now, where I can read and even contribute to travel guides. (my Hawaiian posts are coming soon, I promise!!) But before I join yet another, I need to get organized. I'm getting too scattered, not just for my friends but also for myself...

In search for a Web 2.0 solution to my Web 2.0 problem, I came across Profilactic. It is known as a "digital life aggregator" that help gather all your contents and profiles from various social sites at one centralized place. So instead of giving you 10 URLs to check out my Flickr/Youtube/Friendster/VOX/Blog1/Blog2/moblog/..., I can hand you a Prophylactic Profilactic one (hehe).

However, this poses another dilemma. Do I really want all aspects of me readily accessible in one place? (Although I'm already doing it to a certain extent on the main page of my blog.) Do I want my Linked In contacts reading my personal blog? I don't think there's any harm... plus they can probably find it with a quick google, but doesn't mean I should make it that convenient, right?

So perhaps I can have two or three aggregated profiles, depending on my target audience. (Might want to pick a different aggregator - with a different name - for my professional links though...). Ack... now I need an aggregator for the aggregated profiles!! Like how they have index of indices, meta-metadatas, search of search engines etc... yeah, I'm one of those who love to make lists, and lists of lists, and lists of lists of lists.....

But what I do like about Profilactic is that besides collecting profiles, it also provides a mashed up RSS feed of your gathered content. Actually, that was what I set out to do in the first place. I have several feeds that people can subscribe to from my blogs and other services (Flickr etc.), but I update most of them only sporadically. Why not have one feed that combines all of them? I was going to program it myself, and then I thought, I'm sure someone has already done something similar. Maybe I'll save some time googling for one.

I think I ended up spending more time searching and finding out new stuff. And writing this entry. And I still don't have a combined feed yet! (Can't make up my mind which to use...). From basic tools such as FeedJumbler and RSS Mix, to something that gives you more options (Feed Digest, FeedBlendr) and more control (Feed Rinse, Blastfeed)... to the ultimate Yahoo! pipes.

According to Pipes Overview, "Pipes is a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor. You can use Pipes to run your own web projects, or publish and share your own web services without ever having to write a line of code."

Using Pipes, you can grab search results from google and yahoo simultaneously, read New York Times through Flickr, get a feed of apartment listings in a specific zip code, watch for an item in a specific price range on ebay.... the possibilities are endless. From the descriptions, the tool sounds easy yet powerful. However, the Pipes Editor is not very intuitive for first time users. I think a good piece of technology should be simple enough to get someone interested, and then offer the flexibility and complexity for more options and control. Granted, it's still in beta, so let's see how it develops.

In fact, an example of an aggregation that is simple (users don't have to do anything) and actually useful is VoxWatch! I use it frequently to get updates from my Vox neighbours instead of subscribing to 33 different feeds (at last count). It also keeps track of all comments left for me, as well as follow-ups to comments that I've left for others. Definitely well thought-out. There's also a blog-like version of my neighbourhood along with a combined feed. Great job, Vox!

What is your current obsession(s)?
Submitted by eijsr.

VOX!! I've Flickred about it, blogged about it... maybe I need to Youtube about it next? And no, in this case, Vox is not paying me :) It's just fun to use and I've met a lot of great, interesting people on here...

I also obsess over my Nokia N95. Yesterday as I was driving home, I reached into the pocket of my bag where I usually keep it and found it wasn't there! I started hyperventilating... did I leave it at work? No, I took pics and videos during dinner at my friend's place. Did I leave it there? Probably... should I turn around and go back to her place? I don't mind the 20 miles round trip, but it was getting late... better wait till morning. Oh wait, what's her number? Darn, it's all in the phone. And I have to spend a night without it next to me? What if I need to check something on the web in the middle of the night? I guess I could put my laptop next to the bed (like I used to). I felt so lost...

When I got home I frantically searched my bag again. Luckily I found it in the inside pocket (not sure why I put it there). Huge sigh of relief.

Who or what do you really love?

Another catch-up QotD post.

The "Who": my wonderfully delightful family and friends... I love ya'll.

The "What": music, photography, travelling, flying... and my newest love of N95 and Vox. I've started a collection "Of and by Nokia N95".

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...

Nokia N95:

• sleek and sexy
• 5MP camera
• VGA 30fps video capture
• GPS navigation
• quad-band GSM + HSDPA
• mp3 player + stereo speakers
• bright 2.6" QVGA screen
• WLAN, BT, IR, USB...
• photo editing features
• integration with VOX
• plus it's a phone and PDA etc...

VOX:

• easy and fun
• cool and sexy
• seamless handling of photos and videos
• Flickr and YouTube support
• privacy controls
• great community of VOXers
• integration with Nokia Nseries devices

To wrap up this post of love, here are some pics of N95 taken with N93:

But I think this one is different. The fact that Vox is integrated with my N95 will make it easier for me to blog and upload stuff. Hopefully I'll be able to make full use of this (and my N95)!

While I set this up, feel free to visit my main blog at blog.cybette.com